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I'm sure we've discussed A.H. Fox and his Parker, but I went back to 2009 on this Forum and found nothing. Dave no doubt would have much to add. Is the current caretaker of the gun known?

Ansley H. Fox was shooting a Parker when he left the Fox Gun Co. and went on the road as a Winchester Professional Rep in January 1900. I have found no shoot reports listing Fox prior to 1900 however.

The March 1900 Forest & Stream advertised a Parker Bros. calendar showing “eminent shooters” and Fox was listed
https://books.google.com/books?id=UkohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA218

He won the Baltimore Shooting Association Tournament in March
https://books.google.com/books?id=UkohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA219

He went straight in the April 1900 GAH at Live Birds Day 2 16 bird “Nitro Powder Handicap”
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrar.../SL3503013.pdf
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrar.../SL3504011.pdf
using 3 1/2 Dram “E.C.” and 1 1/4 oz.
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrar.../SL3504012.pdf
and killed 24 birds in the GAH
https://books.google.com/books?id=UkohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA295

A.H. Fox used a DH SN 88807 ordered on August 9, 1898 by H.P. Collins in Baltimore. The gun was a 12/30 Titanic, with a straight grip and no safety. The gun was returned to Parker Bros. on September 18, 1900 by Fox to clean and rebrown the barrels and repair the action, and the work was completed October 5, 1900.

He won the 1900 Baltimore Shooting Association Tournament in March
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrar.../SL3426016.pdf
and the Sportsmen’s Show Tournament in May
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrar.../SL3511014.pdf
and also in May set a new Doubles record of 98X100 with his Parker
https://books.google.com/books?id=UkohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA413



He competed in the GAH at Targets in June
https://books.google.com/books?id=UkohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA499

In August, 1900 he was using a Winchester Model 1897, with which he won the Baltimore Shooting Ass. Tournament in Nov.
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrar.../SL3611016.pdf

He used the Winchester 1897 at the March, 1901 Madison Square Garden Sportsmen’s Show Tournament
http://www.la84foundation.org/Sports.../SL3625013.pdf
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrar.../SL3626012.pdf
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrar.../SL3626013.pdf

He was one of 22 competitors who were straight at 25 birds in the 1901 GAH at Live Birds using the Winchester 1897, but missed his first bird in the shoot-off
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrar.../SL3704018.pdf
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrar.../SL3704019.pdf
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrar.../SL3704021.pdf

Dave or Frank have an image from The American Field April 13, 1901 showing the 22 competitors straight after 25 pigeons, including Fox

4-13-1901 Sporting Life



He was shooting for Winchester in June, 1902
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrar.../SL3912032.pdf
but in the fall left Winchester to establish the Philadelphia Arms Co.

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